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• School: Physicians & Surgeons
• Class Year: 1940
• War: World War II
• Date of Death: October 5, 1945

Captain George Jacques Stricker, U.S. Army Medical Corps, died on October 5, 1945, as a result of poliomyelitis contracted in the Panama Canal Zone, where he had been on duty since December 1942.

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